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Revolutions of Terror was a three-part premiere story of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor comic strip series published in 2014. It debuted the Tenth Doctor's companion, Gabriella "Gabby" Gonzalez.
Summary
Gabriella Gonzalez is stuck in a dead-end job in her family's New York Laundromat, dreaming of college and bigger, better and brighter things.
So when a strange man with an even stranger big blue box barges into her life on the eve of the Day of the Dead celebrations - talking about an infestation of psychic aliens - she seizes her chance for adventure with both hands.
After Donna's tragic exit, the Doctor thought he was done with new companions. But Gabby Gonzalez is going to prove him wrong... if she survives the night!
Plot
Part One
The day before Halloween, and the annual Day of the Dead celebration by Mexicans, Gabby is working at her father's laundromat together with her friend, Cindy, when the tumble dryers go haywire. Gabby sees a sort of monster-like shadow coming out of the machines, but they evaporate before her eyes.
Later that day, while Gabby is having an argument with her parents in the kitchen of their restaurant, "The Castillo Mexicano", the Doctor orders some food from her sister. Before he can eat it, he dashes out of the restaurant after receiving a signal on a device of his. Shortly afterwards, Gabby's grandmother claims to have seen her deceased husband's soul writing in agony in a photograph of him. Her future brother-in-law, Hector, also sees a monster.
In the city, while following the signal, the Doctor sees a baby change into a horrific creature, before abruptly reverting to normal when the Doctor's device registers a signal coming from it.
When taking the subway back from accounting class the same evening, a monstrous creature overtakes the subway, and Gabby runs into the Doctor, who takes her hand and pulls out his sonic screwdriver.
Part Two
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Part Three
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Characters
References
- Sunset Park is a public park in Brooklyn.
Notes
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Original print details
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Continuity
- This series takes place in the period between TV: Journey's End and TV: The End of Time. The Doctor is reflective on Donna Noble, whose memories he was forced to wipe in that episode. The Doctor is hesitant to travel with Gabby, alluding to the fact that "recently... friends of mine have been hurt." The Doctor had a number of companions during this period, including Heather McCrimmon, Majenta Pryce, Emily Winter and Matthew Finnegan.
- Gabby Gonzalez is the Doctor's first companion of Mexican descent.
- The Doctor mentions he wants a device that goes "ding". (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
- The Doctor told Gabby that his "dear friend" Cameca was from Mexico and that he went back to visit her now and then. (TV: The Aztecs)
- The Doctor said he visited Frida and Diego after the incident on the Day of the Dead in 1941. (COMIC: The Way of All Flesh)
- In his mind battle with the Cerebravore, the Doctor experiences visions of the Master (TV: The End of Time), a Time Lord, The Beast (TV: The Satan Pit), Sutekh (TV: Pyramids of Mars), a Cyberman (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, et al), and Rassilon pointing his gauntlet. (TV: The End of Time). The appearance of the Master is anachronistic, as at this point in the Doctor's life his last encounter with the Master had been in TV: Last of the Time Lords.
- Trinity Wells, the AMNN newscaster in Series 1-4, cameos in issue #3. Her last appearance was in The Forgotten Army.
- The Doctor gives a worried glance at an angelic statue covering its eyes while running through a park. (TV: Blink)
- Gabby's sister Cindy suspects her and the Doctor are dating. Similarly, Jackie Tyler suspected Rose and the Doctor had a physical relationship in TV: Aliens of London.
- Gabby says to the Doctor a phrase her grandmother taught her: "No song should end too soon." Carmen gave a similar prophecy in TV: Planet of the Dead, and it is again referenced in TV: The Waters of Mars.
